Frangi Pangi Blooms after Spring Rain in Bangkok

wingssail image-Fredrick Roswold

wingssail image-Fredrick Roswold
wingssail image-Fredrick Roswold

wingssail image-Fredrick Roswold

The Frangi Pangi blossoms smell wonderfully in the clean cool air after a Bangkok spring shower. Of course "cool" is relative, it is still warm and humid in Bangkok, but today's 90deg and 75% relative humitity is feels a lot better than the 99deg and up to 85% humidity we've had a few times in the last week.

I went to the roof top this afternoon where our work-out gym is and these flowers were dancing in the wind and shaking off the raindrops. After my work out I went back down to get my Nikon for these shots,

Wings in Raffles Boat Yard, Singapore

wingssail image-Fredrick Roswold
Wings

Workers in Raffles Boat Yard

wingssail image-Fredrick Roswold
Sanding

There is something about the sound of air-powered tools in a boat yard that I love. I always like hanging out where I hear this sound. I must be strange, but I love it.

The workers at Marina Yacht Services in the boat yard at Raffles Marina in Singapore seem a good as any we've had anywhere, and their tools sound and work the same as all other boat yards in the world.

Here the guys are doing a light sanding job on the bottom, along with fairing some blisters and installing new through hull fittings.

New Paint

wingssail image-Fredrick Roswold
Wings'Deck

This deck takes a beating; it gets scratched, chipped,dinged and dirty and both cruising and racing are hard on it. Every two years we need to repaint it.

Usually we do this ourselves. It takes two people three days to do it: One day to mask, one day to paint two coats, one day to remove the masking. We've done this about 10 times in the past, and once a few years back we had all the hardware removed and the deck sanded down to bare glass. Otherwise it is just a repaint after a light sanding right over the old paint.

This time we had the boat yard do it and I have to admit they did a nice job.

They also used some proper marine deck paint so we'll see if it lasts longer.

Yanmar Going Back In

wingssail image-Fredrick Roswold
Engine

We had the engine out for some exterior servicing and here it is just getting reinstalled.

After 15 years our Yanmar three cylinder still ran great (and it has had recent servicing) but there was rust and dirt on its exterior, many of the engine bolts were frozen, and the motor mounts were shot. On top of it all, we needed a new oil seal on the transmission. The Yanmar manual said we needed to take off the tranny to fix that seal, and with a few stuck bolts in some tough places this was going to be really hard. So we had the whole engine taken out.

They did all the work we asked, replaced the leaking seal, removed and replaced and greased all the frozen bolts, put new mounts in plus they repainted the engine, but it turned out the seal could have been fixed without taking out the engine; it comes off from the back!

Oh well, the rest of the work was needed anyhow.

Light Moment

wingssail image-Judy Jensen

A light moment on Wings. Wé're relaxing and waiting for the wind to fill in a direction which would work for the spinnaker.